possible Safari purchase!!

[Cibola]

Hello all,

I am currently using a fisher F5 and it is a very versalite machine that is a beast at grabbing coins. Problem is I live in an area with lots of iron and highly mineralized soil and I cannot get an accurate tone ID past 5-6 inches. (this is with settings maxed as I can, stock coil, GBalanced, using headphones)

In the 0-6 range mostly what I find is clad and sometimes the rare older coin. Most of my old finds have come from "guessing" on a unclear tone and are deeper than 6 inches.

I have been looking hard at the Safari model and like what have read so far and watched on vids. My question for those of you who have a Safari and have bad soil conditions is this, can you get good ID deeper than 6 inches? If so, how much deeper?

If it is capable of being considerable deeper in highly mineralized soil then I will probably buy one. Its a big expense for me and I dont want to just jump into it. So ALL your comments or feedback will be much appreciated.

Thx ALL !!!

 

[Dan-o]

Hi Cibola,
My soil isn't highly mineralized where I hunt, but I can say this, the safari is deep. I get resonably good tid on coins up to 11" which is the deepest I have found coins so far. When I hunt, I tend to hunt more by the tones and the safari's tones can take a while to adjust to for some.
I am guessing that the safari would do much better in highly mineralized soil than your F5, but again I am just guessing.

Keep watching the classifeds forum and you might want to call Richard at Backwoods Detectors. I bought my used safari from Richard for $665.

 

[croakersmoker78]

I have found silver coins over a foot deep.

 

[robo]

Seems so much of an easier machine to set up than my Explorer. Hope the Safari is as good at getting the silver as my Explorer was.